Huge post!!! Also does anyone wanna swap some atc's with me??

Hi gals,
Wow my poor little blog has been so neglected this month!! Yup its the silly season, This month is going to be huge!! In 7 days time I will become Auntie Lyn to anouther little boy Mason Duffill :D Im so so so excited and so sad too due to the fact I wont be able to see our new addition straight away :( But lys know that I am thinking of you, missing you and loving you!!

Also ladies It is coming to the end of the year and the end of my ATC swaps and I have a few ATC'S left over from various swaps that I would like to swap with someone or some people. If you are interested can you please contact me or email me. Here are the 7 cards I have left :D




Also I am a CT Designer on the new forum Scrap,Chat'n'Challenge. This month I have set a Sketch Challenge, first ever sketch I've designed and I'm really happy with it. Anyways if you would love to join, please do, it is only new and more people the merrier, I can already feel its going to be a wonderful forum. Theres already plenty of challenges going on, so go on over and check it out. Here is an example of my sketch and layout :D


This week I have been creating like mad!! So please come back tomorro or next day as I will have some Layouts to show you, would love to show you today but my ink cartridge ran out :( so off to late night tonite to refill it up. It just feels so good to be scrappin for myself again, as of late i've had way too many committments, most of them all being atc's lol, I just cant help myself they are just so ridiculously addictive!! Here are my last ATC cards I've created for 2009, Theme was the 12 days of Christmas and the santa one was for a swap over at Angies forum. Lys I hope you like because one is heading her way :D


Also 2 weeks ago I was blog hopping and came across Carols blog, she has a beautiful blog with so many inspiring peices that I just simply had to leave a comment. She was also celebrating her 10,000 post and just for leaving a comment you were also in the draw to win a RAK from her, and omg I just couldnt beleive it my name was picked :D So this week she sent me her awesome pack, let me just say I was completely blown away by her generosity, Thankyou so much Carol, you truly made my week when the postie dropped this off to me :D

Last but not least I will leave you with a Photo of my gorgeous little Savannah-Rose :D I hope this puts a smile on your face, I know it does for me. Savannah can you beleive is 3 months old she's just full of giggles and smiles, always has a story ready to tell to anyone that will listen. She is such a bubbly little baby and i'm so blessed to call her my own!

My goodness that was a long post!!! Come back tomorro for some more :D Have a great day babes, TFL. xxx

Great new forum to join!!

Hey people :D
Come on over and join this awesome brand new forum Scrap,Chat'n'Challenges.From the 1st December there will be some great challenges! Plus Anyone who joins and has atleast 20 post by the 15th December will recieve a small RAK!! How awesome is that!! Hope to see you over there gals xxx

OMG my layout is in a mag right now!!! First time ever!

Hi girls :D :D :D
I am extremely wrapped and over the moon atm! My layout I created a couple of months ago especially for Scrapbook Creations hit the shelves yesterday. Its in the latest issue 72, in the Reality Bites section. I'm just so excited because its all about pregnancy, and I just feel really privlidged and happy because Jenni O'connor approached me and asked me to create a layout based around my pregnancy :D Its just means alot to me because its first time ever i've been published and also a awesome special keepsake for Savannah-Rose :D Unfortunately though, they published the name wrong, instead of just Belynda Duffill they added a -Rae on the end of it, used to be apart of my name along time ago due to my mum remarrying a horrible man that is now thankfully out of our lives. So silly me didnt realise a couple of months ago that my hotmail account had rae attached to the end of my name. All changed now though :D Thankfully someone invented white out LOL. But anyways here is a pic of my work hehe.



















Oh guess what my little man started his first day of kindy today :( Very excited for him but very scared at the same time, this is a massive milestone one which means my little dude is growing way too fast. But this is what he needs, to laugh, learn and play with others his own age and plus give mummy a much needed break. We've been trying for over 6 months now to get him in and after trying at 15 different kindy's we finally found one that had a vacancy and its one wicked kindy :D Of course mummy had to snap some photos of his first day :D














Where does the time go??? Can you beleive Savannah-Rose is already 8 weeks old!! The poor little chooken had her needles yesterday, they jabbed her while she was asleep so seriously was not a nice way to wake up. But she was good, cried for a little while and then fell back to sleep :) But already miss savannah has one heck of a personality on her, we can already tell shes gunna be a fun lovin chick!! She giggles and laughs at us already and always has a story on hand for anyone that'll listen. Alex and missy moo are becoming the best of friends now, we cant go anywhere without alex saying sisser Rose coming? He cant say savannah yet so he instead says sisser rose or bubba rose, so super cute. Anyhoos here is a pic of our little girl :D Oh also picked up our portrait photos yesterday, very impressed and happy with the results :D




















If you've read this far, you've done well LOL, that was a huge post, have heaps more to show aswell, but I think that'll do for now. Will post in couple of days all the ATC's I've done for various swaps. And hopefully get some scrapping done Oh and thankyou Diana, Lisa K and Sarah for giving me those awesome blog awards, I will post and pass on anouther day when post isnt so big lol :D
Have a wonderful weekend peoples xoxo TFL

TOOT TOOT :D :D

Hi sweetpeas :D,
After finishing my new baby layout yesterday I thought I would send it into SBM magazine. So this morning I woke up did the usual, checked my emails and YAY I had 2 emails from sharryn, one congratulating us on the birth of Savannah-Rose from the team and anouther saying yes they would love my layout, wahooooo, I tell you I couldnt of been more happier, not only for being published again but for having anouther very special keepsake for my little girl to cherish. Thankyou for all your beautiful comments on the LO, means alot. Take care chickees xxoo
Oh i'm also currently in the process of doing anouther ATC, Will show tomorro :D

My first girlie Layout :D and a Spooky halloween ATC.

Hi guys,
Well yesterday I decided to put all Atc swaps on hold so I could focus on doing some scrappin on Savannah-Rose. Its the first page i've done since she's been born and omg how fun is it scrappin girl pages, very different from my usual!! I just love the way this has turned out, its also got a shabby feel to it. I got a little inspiration from a challenge blog shabbychic Butterflies and Bows. They had a picture attatched to draw some inspiration from. I just simply had alot of fun creating this layout of my litle girl :D












Oh and here is an ATC I created for YSB, The group swap theme of course was Halloween, I thought I'd do something a little freaky for this swap, the gates actually open to reveal the grim reaper waiting.eeekkkk, totally not like me. LOl but was a fun swap.



















Thanks for stopping by, Have a awesome day xxx

Wahoo Some scrapping to share :)

Hi lovelies :D
Wow can I just say first, that omg it feels great to finally sit down and do some scrappin, It was the Relaxation I just needed, sent me to bed happy last night without laying awake thinking of the layouts I wanna do LOL sad hey. Anyhoo's this is a layout I started the night before I went into labour. Its a layout of my son and my beautiful nephew Jayden(alyssa's son), really happy with the way its turned out, although I always think that my handwriting ruins it, does anybody else feel like this sometimes??













Oh and here are a few ATC'S I have created for various swaps over the past couple of weeks. The first one was for my local swap here one the coast, the theme was things with wings. The fairy jar I have actually dipped it into bees wax to give the jar that glassy look and old feel to it.















Next two ATC'S were for a swap over at Young Scrap birds, August theme was butterflies, for this I printed some bright colourful butterflies on transparancy paper and stuck it between glossy paper which I cut a square out of the middle and alcohol inked the edges in various colours. This photo really doesnt do it justice. The last one was for our september swap, theme was spring, if you havent guessed already thats my partner and I holding our new bundle, The background is actually a photo of the flowers Jamie gave me.
















Okies well thats it from me for now, I will also be scrappin again today, as I wanna create a layout for Born to Create, love the challenge :D
Thanks for stopping by, really makes my day receiving comments from you awesome people!! Oh and thankyou to for your comments in regards to me trying to cope with our new addition and alex. Things seem to have started to get kinda better, we still have our ups and down days but thats expected right.
Anyways much love to you all xoxo TFL

Cool check this out!!

Hey Gals, head on over to bon's scraps, she's having an awesome blog candy giveaway for reaching her 100th post!! Very awesome indeed!! So head on over here and check it out and play along :D
Oh and yes I promised ATC photos, but truth is I have forgotton to take the pics, so will get onto that really soon, just been super busy with our new addition and with Alex, yesterday we had a really rough day, alex and I, Alot of tears had by mummy and alex, he was just soooo angry yesterday, screaming at me and lashing out at Savannah-Rose :( , I had to go to spotlight yesterday to get a few things but ended up walking outa there in tears, put everything back, so hopefully I will get down there on saturday when Jamie home from work to mind alex for me. I'm the parent for goodness sake and I just seem to be crumbling, I need to pull myself together! But i know things will get better as the weeks go on, well I hope LOL.
But thankfully we had a really good day today, he's been a little angel. I guess yesterday was just one of those days :( But on anouther note, Savannah-Rose turned 6 weeks yesterday, where have those weeks gone, I cant beleive how quick is going. She already smiling and beleive it or not, she had her first giggle last week and also ate a whole arroroot biscuit. SLOW DOWN BABY GIRL!! TFL